Making MS Office, OpenOffice, Adobe, and any other application with a "Send Document as Email" function work with Google Apps.

v.0.01

Download the Affixa installation package from http://www.affixa.com/Download.aspx. (Note that it is free for personal use only. The author claims the package has no advertisement or other "nags".)

Run Affixa-Setup, accept defaults.

Tick both boxes, then OK:

Click the "Prompt me..." box, then the YES button.

When you click the "Send as email" link in Word, you should see this only at first launch if your default browser is open:

(Mozilla Firefox is the default on my desktop. Chrome or IE or any other would appear depending on the system defaults.)

Click OK. At the next screen, click add, and then Gmail:

Enter your details, and click the Test button:

All being well, you'll see:

Click OK, and then OK on the Accounts Settings and Affixa-Options dialogue boxes, as above.

Load Word/OpenOffice/whatever. Click the "Send document as email" icon. You'll see:

Then:

Your document will have been attached to a draft email, ready for you to finalise and send.